On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:29:55 +0100, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > > It would be nice if there was a simple howto to accomplish the task of > > getting log/error messages that normally go to root to go to a local > > user. For home users that have dynamic IP addresses and no FQDN for > > their IP, this is a problem. > > Actually, it would be nice if anaconda, when it first promted to create > a user, asked whether that user should get root's mail, then did the > necessary automatically. > > Thoughts? Should I try a Request For Enhancements? > > James. > > -- hmm, It is trivial if you just alias root account to another user account, local or remote. in the /etc/aliases file add at the bottum, i.e root: postmaster or even root: my@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx though I would not recommand this, but it's just this simple. P.S remember to run the newaliases command so it can take effect, also use #/usr/sbin/sendmail -bv root to verify the aliase as well. output would look something like this [root@xxx root]# sendmail -bv root postmaster... deliverable: mailer smtp, host mail.abc.com, user postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx Yang
